Artionka Capiberibe is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the State University of Campinas (São Paulo) / IFCH-Unicamp. She graduated in Social Sciences at Unicamp, with a Masters degree in Social Anthropology in the same institution. Her doctorate was held in the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the National Museum / UFRJ, with a one-year scholarship (2006-2007) at the University of Paris X - Nanterre, linked to the Center d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Ethnologie Amérindienne (EREA) and is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1996, she has been conducting field research among the Palikur, an indigenous population of the South American Lowlands, who lives in the Brazilian / French Guiana border region (Brazilian Amazon). Her research interests include the following themes: indigenous cosmologies, social transformations, transnational borders, issues of local development, and Christianity among indigenous populations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The border between Brazil and French Guyana, located along the Lower Oyapock River, is inhabited by a diversity of ethnicities and cultures, which includes the Palikur, an indigenous population which speaks one of the maipure-arawak languages. This research will look at the Palikur approach to alterity, with the central focus being their kinship relations and, as a guiding theme, the proc…
Since the first Portuguese invasions, indigenous peoples have been constantly reinventing struggle strategies in a forced interaction with the State. From the 1970s onwards, an indigenous movement at the national level began to take shape in Brazil, in parallel with an international movement for the creation of normative frameworks on the rights of indigenous peoples. Despite political an…
This research is about the transformation of economic dynamics in the Extractive Reserve of the Middle Jurua, located in the southwest of the state of Amazonas (BR). The population of this region is historically linked to the "rubber cycles" in Brazil, marked by the immigration of thousands of people from the Northeast to work in rubber states (seringais) in the Amazon since the 19thcentu…
This project intends to reflect on the movements of approach and distance of the Kalapalo in relation to the non-indigenous people and the cities. The start point is the discussions about the opening of a road within the limits of the Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX), from Aiha village to the municipality of Querência/MT. The ethnographic focus lies in the discussions about this road beca…
Through field work, conducted between December 2017 and March 2018, for my masters research in the Bolivian Highlands, I had access to an Aymara family from Villa Adela, El Alto. Such relationships led me to know and practice some economic forms Aymaras and understand, from cultural elements such as Yapa and Ayni, the development of the economic rationalization of the caseras. Through Nic…
My objective is to inquire the following questions: what is the relation, whether of convergence, whether of difference, between the critics of amerindian perspectivism and the perspectivist theory itself, as a theory forged mainly by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, but also by Tania Stolze Lima? With whom they dialogue? Are the critics and the theory of Amerindian perspectivism similar? If n…
In the last decades, some critiques became evident in the field of Human Sciences through the analysis of colonial antinomy historically built upon determined spaces, therefore authors formed the asian group of Subaltern Studies based on western authors such as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, named as postcolonial. Understanding the critiques and demands subsequently created by the postcol…
The objective of this proposal of Research and Internship Abroad in the University of Barcelona (Spain), supervised by PD Dr. Juliane Müller, is to advance on the discussions of my doctoral thesis at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil), that consists in an ethnography about the popular economy practices of caseras Aymaras from Villa Adela. The fieldwork, realized between November…
The border between Brazil and French Guiana, located in an Amazon region on the margins (in the sense proposed by Veena Das & Deborah Poole) of the major political decision-making centers, is inhabited by an ethnic and cultural multiplicity which includes the Palikur, an indigenous population who speaks a language of the maipure-arawak family and has lived in this region for centuries. Si…
The aim of this research is to reflect on the notion of value among the Kalapalo of the Aiha village in the Upper Xingu region (Southern Amazon, Brazil). I intend to examine the possible correlations between ongoing transformations in the notion of value and the Kalapalo's approximation towards cities and the non-indigenous world. Such shift occurs due to the narrowing of borders, the inc…
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